Yep, lemmy dev wheelhouse not mine, and I will say that one of the nice things about being an admin is that I can see deleted items - for a while until they're permanently deleted. heh.

Design philosophy… I find it irritating that the comments I delete are still out there at all, so I've gotten in the habit of editing then deleting them.

The flip side - if we're comparing Lemmy to Reddit though - is that scoring you see is not fudged, and you can see your votes happen in real time. If there's a delay in applying the vote, the spinny stays until it happens. With reddit, I'd refresh to make sure my upvote stuck because a lot of times it didn't, just silently fail, and that was irritating.

So it just comes down to different devs making different choices, I suppose.